Can Python Module Locate Itself?

[Miki Tebeka]

Hello sj,

> I have written several small shell utilities in Python and typically use 
> comments at the start of the source file as documentation. A command line 
> option allows the user to read this documentation.  The problem is that I 
> have to explicitly code the source files location within the source which 
> is not very portable.  Is there anyway for a python module to locate its 
> own source ?
sys.argv[0] is always the name of the script.

Have you looked at the new optparse module?
(http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/module-optparse.html)

HTH.
Miki